I’m not the type to pass up a chance to photograph the Navy’s Blue Angels when they fly right over downtown Fort Worth.
The Navy’s flight demonstration squadron actually flew over McKinney, Dallas, Arlington and Fort Worth as part of their nationwide tour to honor those in the medical field who are on the front line fighting Covid 19. Part of the flight was to circle downtown Fort Worth before they landed at Fort Worth’s joint reserve base.
I intentionally picked a spot on the west side of downtown to take photos, since the planes would go over that side of town twice.
The jets came toward downtown from the south and banked sharply to make the turn on the west side of downtown.
It was a tight 360 degree circle all the way around the tall buildings of downtown. It probably took less than 30 seconds for them to make the circle of downtown and be off to the north so they could then turn back south to make their approach to Joint Reserve Base Carswell.
The photo at right are the planes as they make the turn around downtown. The photo at the top of the page is a tight shot when they were when they came back over me for the second time.
I shot all of these photos with my Nikon D500 and used a shutter speed of 1/2000 to make sure I stopped the action of the fast moving jets.
